Art Lewis 27 min read

Julia Fenway fumbles for her keys outside her lonely single apartment, breathing hard from a short walk she's made a thousand times, the small, disquieting opening of a quiet tale of hidden powers.

Art Lewis's 1961 story is a subtle psi-powers and social-SF tale. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a quietly unsettling story that finds the strange lurking in a drab, ordinary life, where a lonely woman's small disturbances hint at something more, in a well-observed golden-age piece that builds unease from the everyday.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

27 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Bob Ritter